http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54395
--- Comment #4 from Rich Felker <bugdal at aerifal dot cx> 2012-08-28 23:52:24 UTC --- Would you care to elaborate on how it would break anything? They're already easily removable with -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -fno-unwind-tables. The problem is just that it's impossible to remove them and still have working debugging (unless you want to revert to using stabs or something and adding back a frame pointer...). My request is that it be possible to move them to a strippable/non-mapped section to use them purely as debugging information and not treat them as "part of the program".
